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Story Quotes by Shannon Hale
- I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the…
- I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only…
- Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then…
- How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and…
- The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think…
- Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.
- Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd…
- I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way…
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